Maine Event- Obama on Pace to Double Total Number of Fundraisers President Bush Held As Obama Campaign Announces Upcoming Downeast Dinner

After deciding that maybe big money contributions to politicians wasn't so bad after all [at least for him- NANESB!], President Obama has already nearly doubled the amount of fundraisers then-President Bush held when he was running for re-election in 2004.

According to several counts, the Big 100 will come Thursday when he does four fundraisers enroute to collecting and spending $750 million to $1 billion for his reelection. So far since April 2011, he has raised an estimated $82 million to $100 million at those events.

Former President George W. Bush, who in May 2003 announced his reelection campaign a month later than Obama at this stage of his presidency, had attended 56 fundraisers at this time, according to CBS White House Correspondent Mark Knoller, the unofficial keeper of White House statistics. In a tweet Tuesday, he added: “Pres Obama will do four reelection fundraisers in NYC Thursday, bringing fundraising total to 100 since filing for reelection last April.”

On Tuesday, various news outlets in Maine announced an upcoming dinner at the Portland Museum of Art set to take place March 30.

About 100 donors are expected to attend the dinner, according to three sources who spoke on condition of anonymity because the Obama campaign has not authorized them to release the information.

The dinner will follow a reception that afternoon at the Portland Marriott at Sable Oaks in South Portland, where about 800 people are expected to attend.

The prices for tickets to the event at Sable Oaks range from $100 to $10,000. For $100, an Obama supporter can buy a general admission ticket. For a $250 donation, one gets "friend" status, and for $500, a contributor gains entry to a "preferred section," according to the campaign website.

A "co-host," who contributes or raises $10,000, gains entry to a photo reception with the president.

The cost of attending the more exclusive dinner at the art museum begins at $5,000 and tops out at a $30,000 donation to the Democratic National Committee.

Since Obama and the Democrats have hitched their wagons to the avarice and perpetual class envy that is Occupy Wall Street, I thought it might be fun to do some math.

According to the most recently avilable US Census statistics, the median household income in the state of Maine is just under $47,000.

While most reports elsewhere list the price of admission to other Obama fundraisers at $38,500, the Portland Press Herald is quoting ticket prices topping out at $30,000- something of a discount. Still- even with the discount, that's something along the lines of 64% of the annual median household income for the state of Maine.

In it's recent efforts to promote their gimmicky payroll taxcut, the Obama Administration promoted a twitter campaign encouraging users to tweet "What $40 means to you"- a PR stunt basically encouraging American taxpayers to beg for their own money. If it's a fair question for the princely sum of $40 would mean, I have to wonder what $30,000 would mean to the out of work railroaders from the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic [the Maine-based railroad had to lay off nearly a quarter of its workforce two years ago- NANESB!] or the hundreds of workers at Maine paper mills who have been laid off in recent years.

Food for thought regarding the President who claims he's for [to borrow from the 'Occupy Wall Street' lexicon- NANESB!] the 99%. Only I won't charge you $30K for these vittles, dear reader.